CULVER CITY, Calif., Aug 30, (AP): The cast of “Breaking Bad” has reunited to call upon Hollywood studios to resume negotiations with striking screen actors. “We want you to come back to the table with us,” Bryan Cranston said in a plea to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers outside Sony Pictures Studios on Tuesday. Cranston was joined by Aaron Paul, Jesse Plemons and other members of the “Breaking Bad” universe in an effort to energize picket lines more than a month after SAG-AFTRA joined striking Hollywood writers. Both guilds are seeking to address issues brought about by the dominance of streaming services, which have changed all aspects of production and pay in the industry.

“The way things were structured 10 years ago made a lot of sense and it made it more possible for journeymen-type actors, actors in the middle that are working just as a hard or harder,” Plemons said. By its final season, which aired more than a decade ago, “Breaking Bad” was one of the most watched and highest rated cable TV shows ever. The AMC hit series has achieved enduring popularity on Netfl ix, but its stars say that has not been refl ected in their pay. “I don’t get a piece from Netfl ix on ‘Breaking Bad’ to be totally honest and that’s insane to me,” Paul said. “I think a lot of these streamers know that they have been getting away with not paying people a fair wage and now it’s time to pony up.” Cranston said they chose Sony for their reunion as the studio behind the Emmy-winning hit, along with its spinoff projects, the AMC prequel series “Better Call Saul” and the Netfl ix film, “El Camino.”

“We’re not making them the enemy. They are not villains. These are people that we all will be working with once again at some point,” Cranston said. “We just want them to see reality.” Several other casts have joined picket lines during the strike, including actors from “Parks and Recreation” and the cult hit “Jury Duty,” drawing a link between popular shows and the actors’ strike goals. Cranston also affirmed SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher’s recent comments to The Associated Press that these dual Hollywood strikes are galvanizing a broader movement throughout the country. “Without organized labor, management will just keep stuffing their pockets. They don’t and will not ever just go, ‘You know what? I don’t think this is being fair to those people. I’m going to pay them more.’ It’s just not what they do,” he said.

Affected
Movies and TV shows affected by Hollywood actors and screenwriters’ strikes Hollywood productions and promotional tours around the world have been put on indefinite hold as actors join writers on the picket lines as they seek new contracts with studios and streaming services. Late-night talk shows and many television productions were put on long-term hiatus due to the writers strike, movie tentpoles, some in mid-production, have shut down too from Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” sequel to “Deadpool 3,” and studios are also pushing some of their completed films into 2024 as well.

On Thursday, Warner Bros. reshuffled several films, notably moving “Dune 2” from November to March 2024. The studio also shifted the release date of a “Lord of the Rings” movie that will now arrive in theaters in December 2024.

Here’s a selected look at shows and films in suspension. “1923” - Paramount+; “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight” - HBO; “Abbott Elementary” - ABC; “American Dad” - Fox; “American Horror Story” - FX; “Big Mouth” - Netflix; “Billions” - Showtime; “The Chi” - Showtime; “Cobra Kai” - Netflix; “Daredevil: Born Again” - Disney+; “Duster” - Max; “Emily in Paris” - Netflix; “Family Guy” - Fox; “FBI: Most Wanted” - CBS; “Grey’s Anatomy” - ABC; “Hacks” - Max; “The Last of Us” - HBO; “Law & Order” - NBC; “Metropolis” - Apple TV+; “Penguin” - Max; “Severance” - Apple TV+; “The Sex Lives of College Girls” - Max; “Stranger Things” - Netfl ix; “The Summer I Turned Pretty” - Prime Video; “Yellowjackets” - Showtime; “Deadpool 3” - Disney/Marvel; “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part II” - Paramount; “Beetlejuice 2” - Warner Bros; “Gladiator 2” - Paramount; “Wicked” - Universal; Untitled Karate Kid fi lm - Sony; “Blade” - Disney “G20” - (TBD); “Lilo & Stitch” - Disney (TBD); “Mortal Kombat 2”- Warner Bros. (TBD); “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” - Sony (TBD); Untitled Brad Pitt F1 Film - Apple (TBD); “Venom 3” - Sony (TBD); “Challengers” - MGM/Amazon; “Dune: Part Two”- Warner Bros; “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” - Sony; “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” - Warner Bros.; “Kraven the Hunter” - Sony; “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” - Warner Bros; “Poor Things” - Searchlight Pictures; “Problemista” - A24 (TBD); “They Listen” - Sony (TBD); Untitled Dirty Dancing Sequel - Lionsgate; “White Bird” - Lionsgate; “Jimmy Kimmel Live” - ABC; “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” - HBO ; “Late Night With Seth Myers” - NBC; “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” - CBS; “Saturday Night Live” - NBC and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” - NBC